Ilana Estelle is a mental health and wellbeing advocate who combines educational insight with her personal experience of living with physical, mental, and emotional disabilities.
She holds diplomas in Counselling, Diet and Nutrition, Nutritional Therapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling, and Stress Management. Through her writing, Ilana supports others in navigating their emotional, mental, and physical health challenges.
In addition to writing for The CP Diary, her work has appeared in healthy lifestyle magazines.
Ilana is also the author of three books: Cerebral Palsy: A Story – Finding the Calm After the Storm, Spirituality, Healing and Me, and Survival: The Covid Years – Time for Change.
Something inspirational: “Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.” DORIS LESSING Thinking for yourself means more than having your own opinions. It means owning your words, your choices, and ...
Something inspirational: "We are not what happened to us. We are what we choose to become.” JAMES HOLLIS "I am drawn to James Hollis's words: 'We are not what happened to us. We are what we choose ...
Something inspirational: "Healing begins when we can hold our own experience with compassion." TARA BRACH Brach's quote reminds us that healing begins when we meet our pain with kindness instead of judgement ...
Thanks. Yes, I believe we should too and although it's not easy to do, our lives become more simple in that we continually have the advice we need to hand, as opposed to having to search for those answers ourselves.
I find it sad when outside influences, change our thinking and we don't stop to think, or stand back to question what our thoughts are telling us and why.
We'd all be in much better emotional spaces if we did.
We should all listen to our inner voice and be guided by it.
Unfortunately, some inner voices influenced by external influences, turn into monsters beyond imagination.
Thanks. Yes, I believe we should too and although it's not easy to do, our lives become more simple in that we continually have the advice we need to hand, as opposed to having to search for those answers ourselves.
I find it sad when outside influences, change our thinking and we don't stop to think, or stand back to question what our thoughts are telling us and why.
We'd all be in much better emotional spaces if we did.